| The Tilted Cross | |
| Author: | Hal Porter |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Literary fiction |
| Publisher: | Faber and Faber, London |
| Release Date: | 1961 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 266 pp |
| Preceded By: | A Handful of Pennies |
| Followed By: | The Right Thing |
The Tilted Cross (1961) is a novel by Australian author Hal Porter.[1]
The novel is set in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1845-46. It follows the last few months in the life of Judas Griffin Vaneleigh, a transported forger and suspected poisoner.
A reviewer in The Canberra Times was not as enthusiastic as some of his colleagues: "Porter's baroque style gives his wordage full play. He spins his words like a thick spider's web and in the depths of the web he sets an evil collection of characters . . . They move dimly and poisonously in the mess of words like red-back spiders stirring in a thick web in a dark corner."[2]